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Can you help me find the name of this classification algorithm :



Assume we have data:
$n$ dimensional feature vectors we want to classify in two classes.

We model the classes as two $n$ dimensional gaussian distributions estimated from the data.

We classify a new vector to the class that maximizes the PDF(probability density function) at that point.










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Can you help me find the name of this classification algorithm :



Assume we have data:
$n$ dimensional feature vectors we want to classify in two classes.

We model the classes as two $n$ dimensional gaussian distributions estimated from the data.

We classify a new vector to the class that maximizes the PDF(probability density function) at that point.










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  • Two component Gaussian mixture model?

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Can you help me find the name of this classification algorithm :



Assume we have data:
$n$ dimensional feature vectors we want to classify in two classes.

We model the classes as two $n$ dimensional gaussian distributions estimated from the data.

We classify a new vector to the class that maximizes the PDF(probability density function) at that point.










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Can you help me find the name of this classification algorithm :



Assume we have data:
$n$ dimensional feature vectors we want to classify in two classes.

We model the classes as two $n$ dimensional gaussian distributions estimated from the data.

We classify a new vector to the class that maximizes the PDF(probability density function) at that point.







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  • Two component Gaussian mixture model?

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  • Two component Gaussian mixture model?

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Two component Gaussian mixture model?

– Bey
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Two component Gaussian mixture model?

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Probably Quadratic Discriminant Analysis.



There are also names for different constraints you could make:




  1. Covariance matrices of both classes are equal - Linear Discriminant Analysis.


  2. Only diagonal elements of the covariance matrix are non-zero - Naive Bayes Classifier


  3. Covariance matrix is identity (diagonals = 1, non-diagonals = 0) - Nearest Centroid Classifier







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    Probably Quadratic Discriminant Analysis.



    There are also names for different constraints you could make:




    1. Covariance matrices of both classes are equal - Linear Discriminant Analysis.


    2. Only diagonal elements of the covariance matrix are non-zero - Naive Bayes Classifier


    3. Covariance matrix is identity (diagonals = 1, non-diagonals = 0) - Nearest Centroid Classifier







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      Probably Quadratic Discriminant Analysis.



      There are also names for different constraints you could make:




      1. Covariance matrices of both classes are equal - Linear Discriminant Analysis.


      2. Only diagonal elements of the covariance matrix are non-zero - Naive Bayes Classifier


      3. Covariance matrix is identity (diagonals = 1, non-diagonals = 0) - Nearest Centroid Classifier







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        Probably Quadratic Discriminant Analysis.



        There are also names for different constraints you could make:




        1. Covariance matrices of both classes are equal - Linear Discriminant Analysis.


        2. Only diagonal elements of the covariance matrix are non-zero - Naive Bayes Classifier


        3. Covariance matrix is identity (diagonals = 1, non-diagonals = 0) - Nearest Centroid Classifier







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        Probably Quadratic Discriminant Analysis.



        There are also names for different constraints you could make:




        1. Covariance matrices of both classes are equal - Linear Discriminant Analysis.


        2. Only diagonal elements of the covariance matrix are non-zero - Naive Bayes Classifier


        3. Covariance matrix is identity (diagonals = 1, non-diagonals = 0) - Nearest Centroid Classifier








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